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Why Does Nobody Use Lemmy?
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this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2026
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I use Lemmy. And you do. And 1000 other people do. So I'd say it's big enough.
And Reddit was small for years and years when it started. I don't even think I really started using it till around 2013-2014. Didn't have a username or anything just came across it through Google searches. All websites take a while to build a userbase.
This I think is the main problem to adoption. It's very hard to come across Lemmy results on a search engine even if I'm trying to specify Lemmy. (Not that search engines matter for most people these days what with the LLM executive summary pushing out real web pages, who needs resources when you have slop, am I right? \s)